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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Nicol Stephen has finally appointed a team of spokespeople to shadow the recently appointed Scottish Ministers.
The Liberal Democrats are the last major party to announce their shadow ministerial team.
Unsurprisingly, Stephen will shadow First Minister Alex Salmond. Tavish
Scott will shadow the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable
Growth, John Swinney.
Jeremy Purvis will take on the portfolio of Education and Lifelong
Learning, as well as Children and Young People, shadowing Fiona Hyslop,
and Ross Finnie, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister in the last
Executive, will take on Health and Wellbeing, shadowing Deputy First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Margaret Smith will shadow Cabinet Secretary for Justice Kenny
MacASkill and Mike Rumbles will shadow Cabinet Secretary for Rural
Affairs and the Environment Richard Lochhead.
Other spokespeople are John Farquhar Munro on Gaelic and Highland
culture; Liam McArthur on enterprise, energy and tourism; Alison
McInnes on transport, infrastructure and climate change; Hugh O’Donnell
on schools and skills; Jamie Stone on public health; Jim Tolson on
communities and sport; Mike Pringle on public safety; and Jim Hume on
the environment.
Former Deputy Education Minister Robert Brown will be take on
parliamentary business, shadowing Bruce Crawford. Iain Smith will be
convener of the Parliamentary Party, and Alison McInnes its secretary.
In addition Mike Pringle MSP will serve as a member of the Scottish
Parliament Corporate Body.
Michael Moore MP continues as the Depute Leader of the Scottish Liberal
Democrats and Jo Swinson MP continues to serve as the Liberal Democrat
Shadow Scottish Secretary in the House of Commons.
Stephen said: "The Scottish Liberal Democrat parliamentary team are
young, energetic and forward-looking. My goal is for the Liberal
Democrats to be the most effective campaigning political party in
Scotland.
"The Liberal Democrats in Scotland have grown steadily since the
establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. In this month’s
elections we got more votes in the constituency election than we have
ever got before.
"As a party we are ambitious and I am determined that we can make
progress across Scotland in the forthcoming General Election and build
on that for the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections."
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